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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>,
	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>,
	Dmitry Mishin <dim@openvz.org>,
	Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Add etun driver
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:14:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <461A829C.7050703@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <461A70A5.8060607@trash.net>

Patrick McHardy wrote:

> It would be nice if someone would finally come up with a generic
> interface based on netlink (RTM_NEWLINK) instead of adding yet
> another couple of homegrown interfaces.

My preference is for ioctls, procfs, or similar that does not
require extra libraries.  Ethtool is an ioctl based approach,
so that could potentially be used, though I'm not sure if
that's the right place to put it...

Ben


-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-09 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-06 20:43 [PATCH] net: Add etun driver Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-06 20:34 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-04-06 21:38   ` Ben Greear
2007-04-06 20:54     ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-04-06 22:01       ` Ben Greear
2007-04-07  2:51   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-09 16:37     ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-09 16:58       ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-09 18:14         ` Ben Greear [this message]
2007-04-09 18:37           ` David Miller
2007-04-09 18:48             ` Ben Greear
2007-04-09 18:45           ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-09 18:44         ` David Miller
2007-04-09 19:35           ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-09 19:48             ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-09 20:03             ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-09 20:11             ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-09 20:29               ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-10  0:06                 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-10  5:47                   ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-10  6:08                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-10  6:18                       ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-10  7:52                     ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-10  9:18                       ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-10  9:52                         ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-10 10:27                           ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-10 10:46                             ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-10 11:02                               ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-10 11:09                                 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-10 11:16                                   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-10 11:24                                   ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-10 12:05                                     ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-10 13:44                                       ` John W. Linville
2007-04-10 13:48                                       ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-10 21:16                   ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-11 16:15                     ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-11 16:43                       ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-11 16:52                         ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-11 16:59                           ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-11 16:16                     ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-04-06 20:57 ` Roland Dreier
2007-04-07  2:08   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-06 21:20 ` Ben Greear
2007-04-07  2:06   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-07  3:31     ` Ben Greear
2007-04-07  5:37       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-07  7:31         ` Ben Greear

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